Example sentences of "have not [verb] see " in BNC.
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1 | He had not wanted to see her once in all the long years . |
2 | We were glad he had not lived to see four of his sons in Army and Air Force uniform . |
3 | It is hard to believe that Thucydides when he wrote these words had not lived to see at least the Spartan Thibron 's Asian expedition of 400 . |
4 | Ludens had found space and time , amid his new sensations , to feel very sorry that he had not gone to see Franca when she had , so unusually , as he realised just afterwards , invited him . |
5 | Anne felt guilty that she had not attempted to see Kathleen after Ella 's injury . |
6 | Willing to side with Parliament against Charles I , he had not wished to see the king executed . |
7 | They had not looked to see whether the police had come into the main road in time to see . |
8 | I was daft to think that was Cormac 's doing , she thought , but it was partly the reason why she had not tried to see her friend . |
9 | Strange , Mowbray pondered , that Adam had not come to see them this Christmas . |
10 | Nora had not needed to see the child in order to understand what had moved John to behave as he did . |
11 | She had not expected to see him so soon , as she returned to the dining rooms . |
12 | In much less detail is a list of acceptable products , a list which does not claim to be comprehensive but which included a number of medications I had not expected to see , when eventually found under headings which would generally mean more to the medic than to the layman . |
13 | To tell the truth , I had not expected to see you again . ’ |
14 | He had not returned to see Taheb , partly out of pride , partly out of uncertainty . |
15 | She was glad Mam had n't lived to see another war . |
16 | ‘ Actually even if we had n't wanted to see each other again she would have got the flowers , ’ laughs Colin . |
17 | It was quite a busy week , going to the concerts and the theatre and visiting friends again , as well as seeing some we had n't managed to see earlier , such as Maria and Mike who 'd just had their second baby , and Robert ( Easting ) and Christine who had also just had a baby . |
18 | Yes well we save , we possibly saved that time , most of was was completely er occupied , so if we had n't have seen the fire , there could have been forty lives or forty families at risk there . |
19 | He had n't expected to see the girl on a racecourse so soon after Ascot . |
20 | Belinda , five , had n't expected to see Santa yesterday — but then her mother and father , Gill and Paul , had not expected to be celebrating at the hospital . |
21 | But she certainly had n't expected to see a selection of Penguin Classics . |
22 | I had n't expected to see you here this evening . ’ |
23 | ‘ Because I never saw him before Monday and I have n't stopped seeing him since . |
24 | Er we have n't had to see anybody about that and he sent us a letter saying that he 'd like to see us and we went and he says it there might not be a second inquest . |
25 | nineteen eighty five and we can see the picture of it , or a drawing of it on page seventy , I have n't looked to see how many apartments there is |
26 | Well I said to him only last week , I said wonder where Trevor is these days , have n't seem to see him in here , but er |
27 | ‘ I have n't come to see them . |
28 | I have n't dared to see the doctor yet , in case it 's just my age or something . |